Rebellion_After It Happened Book 6 by Devon Ford

Author:Devon Ford [Ford, Devon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vulpine Press
Published: 2017-06-29T22:00:00+00:00

SUSPICION

Steve watched subtly from his quiet corner of the dining hall. He had worked hard to become all but invisible over the last few months, but within minutes of the unfamiliar face walking into the room the whisper had reached him that the boy was asking for Steve by name. If he knew anything about him then the cripple injured in the helicopter crash should be easy to find. That worried Steve.

It was a problem for a man who liked to know everything but also liked to remain anonymous. Now a face he didn’t know was asking for him. He asked one of his most trusted resistance members, Ryan, to find out who the young man was and what he wanted as he carried on wiping down the plastic trays slowly.

He watched as the man he had sent in his place sat down opposite the young man in the clean clothes. A glance to either side by his lieutenant made the other diners give them space in silence. The boy stopped eating and stared at the man opposite him.

“Steve?” he hissed, clearly unsuited to covert operations.

“Who’s asking?” said Ryan without looking up from the food he shovelled into his mouth, who was at least five years too young and a head too short to be Steve.

“My name’s Max,” Max said, feeling sorely obvious in a room full of people wearing rough and stained clothing. Perhaps changing out of his crisp, white shirt first would’ve been sensible. “And I need to tell you something,” he finished urgently.

“Ok, Max,” said Ryan, finally looking up to see a boy he guessed was genuinely scared, “what do you need to say?”

He leaned down to the table, making it obvious to anyone who was watching that he was trying to impart secrets. “A guard got killed last night,” he hissed, louder than it would have sounded if he had just spoken softly. That came as no surprise to Ryan, as the day’s feverish activity had all been centred around the murder of a guard in the night. It was common knowledge. When he carried on eating and didn’t respond, Max pushed further.

“By another guard,” he said.

Ryan stopped chewing.

“Why would a guard kill another guard?” he asked, careful not to say anything that would imply he had anything but a casual interest in what the boy was saying.

“Not here,” Max muttered, glancing side to side and further betraying that he was hardly spy material. “Steve, I need—”

“I’m not Steve,” Ryan said, resuming his eating as the young man opposite made a face of sheer horror that he had exposed himself. Ryan decided that whilst fear could be faked, this level of desperate incompetence could not.

“But I am interested in your little story. Tell me some more of it so I can sleep tonight.”

Max looked horrified. He had no idea what to do next and hadn’t even considered not being able to speak to Steve directly. He wasn’t fully committed yet, but he had gone too far. If what he had said was reported then he would not live for long.

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